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Litigators of the Week: Simpson Thacher and ACLU Team To Challenge Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law

With Jonathan Youngwood of Simpson Thacher and Heather Weaver of the ACLU arguing for plaintiffs, a federal judge in Baton Rouge blocked the law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Justice Department Says Fulton County Jail Conditions Violate Detainee Rights

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office doesn't adequately protect jail detainees from violence by other detainees, including stabbings, sexual abuse and killings, federal officials contend in a lengthy report
6 minute read

Law.com

Federal Judge Sends Novel Damages Question in Employment Dispute to State Court

"The court could answer each of these lingering questions in favor of either Johnson or Hertz. But at this stage, the court need not, and should not, definitively resolve these questions. Instead, Missouri state courts should have the first opportunity to determine these important issues of state law," U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark for the Eastern District of Missouri said.
5 minute read

Law.com

County Reps: Appeal Likely Following State Court's Sales Tax Ruling for Retail Marijuana

In Robust Missouri Dispensary 3 v. St. Louis County, the court sided with the plaintiff, concluding that only one local government is permitted under state law to impose an additional 3% sales tax on the retail sale of marijuana.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Regulatory Upheaval Is Coming. How Businesses Prepare and Respond Will Separate Winners and Losers

“Every regulation is going to be questioned. … And that'll be a better environment for many businesses once the regulations are wiped away. But they're going to have to adapt their businesses to exploit that," said Sean West, co-founder of Hence Technologies.
10 minute read

Law.com

Decisions Have 'Real-Life Consequences': Juvenile Court Judge Considered for Appellate Bench

"I will always remember that the appeals that I hear and the decisions that we make have real-life consequences—not just on the parties or the litigants—but also on the trial court judges and how the decisions affect them on the front lines," Middlesex County Juvenile Court Judge Gloria Tan said regarding her nomination to the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Supreme Court Rejects Push to Move Georgia Case Against Ex-Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

Meadows had gone to the Supreme Court in an effort to move the charges out of Georgia courts. He argues the case belongs in federal court because it relates to his duties as a federal official and pointed to the court's ruling giving broad presidential immunity from criminal prosecution to support his argument.
3 minute read

Law.com

Overcoming Hurricane Helene: How the Western North Carolina Legal Community Managed Court Closures, Sanitation Concerns

Attorneys working in private and public practice spoke to Law.com about the devastation left by Helene, reflecting how their day-to-day legal operations were affected and how their professional community pulled together in the aftermath.
9 minute read

The Recorder

California-Based Portal Crypto Exchange Faces Delaware Investor Class Action

“The allegations in the complaint are about investors being bullied into signing these conversions and being lied to about the use of this money,” said Eric Rosen, a partner at Dynamis.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Here's Who Passed California's July 2024 Bar Exam

More than 4,400 successful applicants were the last to pass an exam that will soon be written by a new vendor and delivered in a mostly remote format.
2 minute read

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